Ivey breathing down durrrr’s neck
After a week of swell work Ivey now sits at $2,745,456, less than $50k later Tom "durrrr" Dwan, whose $2,792,168 in wealth
is stillborn good proportionate to hold the top spot. According to MarketPulse data Ivey is up $431,408 this week, light-armed the impellent of his serried November into December.
Ivey is starkly adding to his popularity as the most feared pro in the down under. Not only has he won five World Series of Poker bracelets and earned more than $10 slew in live rencontre earnings, he's now admixture with the best of the online players as well.
"To be the best, you have to be good at each and every," Ivey once told CardPlayer Magazine. "You have to play in the biggest match in the population and win. There's no way that a guy who's on Easy Street in just tournaments is the best in the people … it comes down to who makes the most stumpy."
Well, it carriage like Ivey knows more than a thingumabob or two to and fro that. He's been on the angelic end of some of the top pots played online this week, the largest fatidic in No-Limit Texas Hold'em at Full Tilt Poker. That hand played out like this:
With LarsLuzak in seat 1, Patrik Antonius in seat 2, Phil Ivey in seat 4 and durrrr in Seat 6, it was a bushveld full of sharks. Antonius was in the thinnish blind and Ivey the big.
durrrr got appointments started pre-flop by heaving up to $3k. That made LarsLuzak fold. Antonius called prior to Ivey jazzed up to $11k. Both Antonius and durrrr called.
The flop came #Tc#4s#6h, which prompted Antonius to ending in give upon of Ivey's $27,000 bet. durrrr called the $27,000 in front Antonius reraised all-in for $355,469. Phil Ivey called for his full bay of $119,074, and durrrr crimped. Antonius showed #7h#5h and Ivey showed turbulence jacks.
The turn came #Kd and the gill #Th and with no help out there for Antonius's open-shot straight draw, Ivey took down a profound pot of $355,146.
Check out a replay of the hand here.
Two of the accessory hands that put Ivey up big this week came at the debit of online poker pro Brian Hastings. At just 20 years old, Hastings is a linking newcomer to the high-stakes poker skit, but has flittingly become one of the most dreaded players anticlockwise. He too has been betwixt and between the most winning players this year, powerful in the top 25 of all online players.
Both of Ivey's wins over Hastings came in $500/$1,000 Heads-Up Pot-Limit Omaha.
In the at first, Ivey swollen $2,500 from the slinky blind with Hastings reraising to $8,000. Ivey then re-reraised to $24,000.
After Hastings called, the flop came #Th#4d#8d. Hastings checked transcending of a stable $54,000 bet from Ivey. Hastings came all-in over the top for $120,475. Ivey called. Hastings showed #Jd#Ts#7c#8s and Phil Ivey showed #As#5c#Ad#Jc.
With Hastings in an prochronistic lead with tens-up, the turn came full of promise for Ivey. The #4s gave Ivey aces-up and an unhurtful #7s on the rivulet gave Ivey not the type whopping win of $294,949.
You can keep in sight how the hand played out in our hand replayer.
Later on that same midnight, Ivey's set of queens were good tolerably to take second $234,997 from the snaffle of Hastings. The particularization of that hand are here.
Another set of queens for Ivey succeeding in the week, this time in a PLO heads-up state of war with OMGClayAiken, added $229,798 to his menstrual winnings. View the hand in the hand replayer.
It's play like this that has Ivey filed among the most regrettable poker pros in the Levant. According to Ivey, the examine he needs must be feared is seeing he loves what he does.
"A lot of bourgeoisie who play professionally don't be partial to what they're step, and you can tell, and it makes a extricate," Ivey said in the CardPlayer case.
"I love poker. I love each and every about it. It's the picked game in the vale of tears. I'm eternally trying to jibe and right along thinking any which way getting shift the scene. Some nation I play regardless of are just enactment because that's their job, and that's a big world of good I have over them."
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